Ask FS!

Welcome back loyal readers, it's time once again for "Ask FS!"

Today's question comes to us from Marc in New York who asks

Eric Staal is off to a great start, do you think he is the best Staal brother?

Great question Marc! While I certainly do think Eric is off to a great start, it is a little known fact that Linda Staal, boy's mother, was a bit of a traveller in her youth, and while travelling through Finland, she met the man that she thought would change her life. Unfortunately, the man was not the noble man she thought he was, and their romance ended abruptly. 9 months later, Linda was left with a little bundle that her parents made her give up. Linda later met the father of Eric, Marc, Jordan, and Jared, and the rest is history. Years later, that Finnish boy was drafted in the first round of the NHL draft several years before his half-brother Eric, and had a wildly succesful career for the Buffalo Sabres. To this point, the best of the Staal brothers is actually their half-brother, goaltender Mika Noronen. Now you know the rest of the story.

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Stupid News!

*sigh*
The free agent period is whimpering out. I don't find much joy in arguing if Brooks Laich is more like Jim Slater than Dominic Moore, so we enter the most boring part of the offseason.


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Mike Comrie is dating Hillary Duff. The twenty-six year old center for the New York Islanders was been getting frisky with the nineteen year old actress. That's right, he's almost 50% older than her. Oh my gosh! They are holding hands!!!11 While I can't say I care anything about Mike Comrie, I can say that I thought the Lizzy Maguire show was great. Disney needs to put the rest of them out on DVD.

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The Staal brothers got arrested after Eric Staal's bachelor party. Apparently Jordan and Eric got hauled off to the pokey after Eric's bachelor party spilled out into the street. Jordan apparently is especially in hot water after drinking before he's 21! Oh noes! I personally think this isn't that big a deal at all. It's unfortunate that it is happening during the offseason when there is nothing better to talk about. If you want to see a headline that can only be described as "puntastic" be sure to click here.

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The Official beard of Alexei Yashin is tired of everyone hating on Alexei Yashin and his decision to go back to Russia. Yashin's longtime girlfriend, Carol Alt, was quoted in the Ottawa Citizen as saying "I think he needs to go where people understood him and where he's looked at like a God."

If I were to compare Yashin to a god, I would compare him to Eileithyia, the Greek god of midwives.


That's what's unimportant around the NHL this week. Hopefully something more important will happen between now and next week. Please?